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Lockheed wins $395m GPS III Space Vehicle contract modification

Lockheed Martin Space Systems has received a $395m US Air Force (USAF) contract modification from the Space and Missile Systems Center for work on the GPS III Space Vehicle programme.

The deal covers hardware for the production of space vehicles nine and ten for the next-generation of GPS satellites.

Space and Missile Systems Center commander lieutenant general Samuel Greaves said: “The GPS III space vehicles nine and ten satellites are expected to be ready for launch in 2022, thus sustaining the GPS constellation and the global utility the world has come to expect.”

Work under the contract will be performed at Littleton, Colorado, and is expected to be complete by August 2022.

Besides maintaining the current technical baseline of GPS III, this competition will add additional hosted payloads to increase system accuracy, search and rescue capability, and universal S-band compatibility.

"The deal covers hardware for the production of space vehicles nine and ten for the next-generation of GPS satellites."